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Flat Over, 2 High Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0AW

2025/0356FullApproved

Approved on 22 December 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Extension and reconfiguration of upper floor vacant residential accommodation over commercial premises into mix of studio, 1 Bed and 2 Bed apartments (8no. in total), access will be via a new external stairway.

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wombwell Ward
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.3 Jun
  4. Target11 Jun
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 250 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Flat Over, 2 High Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0AW. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 250 days, 26 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Wombwell Ward. We hold 666 applications in total for the S73 postcode area.

95% of full applications at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
S73 0AW
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
16 April 2025
Consultation expiry
3 June 2025
Consultation end
3 June 2025
Target decision date
11 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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